Research

Researching potential relevant styles to incorporate into the design of my comic/animation. Both decorated Samien and Greek urns have been used for story telling throughout history. Illustrated on them, the design tells a story through intricate and informative images. Whilst Samien pottery has quite a monochromatic colour variation, Greek Urns are the opposite with a starkly contrasted black and orange design.

- Perhaps I could use the different styles of pottery to reflect the different time periods?

- The Greek urn is more practical in terms of reflecting comic storyboards and is a style I’ve used before

- The Samien pottery would offer some interesting options in terms of new colour ranges etc..

Comic inspiration: 

After deciding that I wanted to incorporate a cartoon style into my animation as well as make a comic I decided to look at some comics I find inspiring to influence my work. The below comic is one that I found on on Instagram which is being sold on Etsy. I really like the unique style of comic boxing which is really original. I would really like to incorporate the design decisions taken within this comic as I think it would be really interesting to animate smaller sections of a comic in. For example in the fist page of this comic the rocket could be animated to move across the boxes up and out of shot.

Unconventional comic boxes:

Image 1:

I really like the idea of having unconventional comic boxes rather than having a contained book. Below is an image from a comic I found and I really like the way in which the image travels across the 5 comic boxes but also stays beneath them.

Image 2:

The below comic page has a main image which has been overplayed with smaller comic boxes which I really interesting. This is the kind of style that I have done before because I tend to make my comics one image at a time which leads to larger spreads with overlays.

Breif

 The brief for this project was to create a comic for a story/script that was made. This is a paid commission and ties in really nicely with the main part of my unit- X project because of the design style I plan to incorporate in them both. 

The style that I plan to recreate within this project is similar to a style I’ve worked on before which was about a Roman soldier Sempronius Densus and his heroic defence of the emperor. The style I implemented was the aesthetic of a Greek urn with the black and orange details. I really liked bringing the aesthetic of the period to the story and thought it made it more relevant. 

Below is the script that I was given to make the comic for. I have annotated it with ideas of how I can make the comic reflect the metaphors within the script. The concept is spiders vs cockroaches which has been written in the style of a Homeric Greek legend. As a result I will be utilising a similar style to my last Homeric legend.